Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments),...

Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (passage of C Darling and family, Naval Property Act, passage of C Darling, expenses of the Naval Department, Act concerning the government of Kingston Hospital, passage of Reverend W Hytton and wife, prosecution of Jacob Alvarenga for stealing government stores, Principal Medical Officer at the Naval Hospital acting on the Board of Visitors at the Kingston Public Hospital, passage of T Allen and wife, passage of Reverend W S Serres and family, passage of J Frishmey and A E Brown, passage of A Lennox, E H Monkton's application for a lease of guano deposits, charges against Jacob Alvarenga);
• Agent (four items requesting stationery);
• Council Office (leaving to operation of Acts 4404, 4409, 4410, 4411, 4414 and 4415 of 1862, leaving to operation of Act 4412 of 1862, leaving to operation of Act 4417 of 1863, confirmation of Acts 4420 and 4429 of 1863, leaving to operation of Acts 4418, 4419, 4421, 4428, 4430, 4438, vaccine lymph supply, disallowance of Act 4413 of 1862);
• Foreign Office (Morant Cays, landing of steamer Alabama, chartering of a ship by the captain of the Hattuas, two items concerning the appointment of E Perkins to be United States Consul at Kingston, three items concerning the appointment of Mr Ruggles to be United States Consul at Kingston, appointment of Don Brunno Badan to be Spanish Vice-Consul at Kingston, two items concerning the slave trade in Cuba, appointment of J Isaacs to be Consular Agent for the United States at Savannah La Mar Jamaica, substitution of Mr Ruggles as United States Consul at Kingston in the place of Mr Perkins);
• Land Board (refusal of planters to pay the charge for);
• Law Officers (proposed Bill for the government of the Cayman Islands, resolution concerning the right to vote, government power to remove Clerks of the Peace);
• Office of Commissioners in Lunacy (government of Lunatic Asylum Jamaica, appointment of T Allen to be Medical Superintendent at Jamaica Asylum);
• Geological Survey of the West Indies (death of L Barrett and consequent appointments);
• General Post Office (Post Office Act, postage on letters conveyed by private ship, extension of the money order system);
• Board of Trade (Act to amend the Plum Point Lighthouse Act, Act to impose additional duties of customs on certain articles of import, dye and woods Act 4437, construction of the Jamaica Tramroad, mode for methylating Rum, tramroad between Spanish Town and Poms);
• Treasury (Sinking Fund of the guaranteed loan, two items concerning the passage of Governor Eyre, two items concerning the half-salary of C Darling, salary of the governor of Jamaica, superannuation allowance of D W Kelly, passage of Mr Kelly, increase in superannuation allowance of R Emery, salary of I G Hawkins, loan due to the British Government, perpetual annuity of the Secretary of State, Customs Duty Act No 4418, duties on sugar and rum, separation of the office of Governor's Secretary from that of Private Secretary to the Governor in Jamaica, salary of Private Secretary, ad valorem duties on imports from the United States);
• War Office (arms for volunteers, acting of the Principal Army Medical Officer on the Board of Visitors of the Public Hospital Kingston, Act to acquire forests around Port Royal, Act to amend the Volunteer Militia Acts, transfer of forts and barracks to the Executive Committee, volunteers force, Local Volunteer Corps, regulations of the volunteer force, Stoney Hill barracks).

Individuals:

• T Allen (appointment at the Lunatic Asylum Jamaica, asks to be accompanied by J Freshney and E Brown);
• T Aitkin (estate of James Aitkin);
• R Boustead (application to be Medical Officer to the Lunatic Asylum at Kingston Jamaica);
• A Bowen (certificate of naturalisation);
• R Beddome (three items concerning the marriage settlement of Mrs Owen);
• B Baylis (two items concerning his application for the post of Colonial Engineer);
• I D Baillie (leave of absence);
• C Campbell (leave of absence);
• J Crampe (property of A Dallas);
• C Darling (Cayman Islands Act, his continuance in government, passage to Jamaica, the executive committee, additional clauses to Cayman Islands Bill, his half-salary payment, seat in the House of Assembly of E Leahy, office of public secretary, his salary);
• R Emery (his pension);
• Fearson and Company (A Barclay);
• C Gayleard (appointment at the Lunatic Asylum Jamaica);
• W Hytton (leave of absence, thanks for his leave of absence, passage to Jamaica);
• Mr Harris (estate of Richard Harris);
• W G B Harbord (property claim);
• J Hawkshaw (report on the Permanent Way);
• A Kent (leave of absence, his half-salary);
• D W Kelly (resignation, superannuation allowance, passage money to England);
• E Leahy (subscription to the Prince Consort Testimonial Fund, his suspension from office on seven charges);
• J Lawson (death of his son John Andrew Lawson);
• Archbishop Leahy (his brother's removal from office);
• A Lennox (appointment of an assistant surveyor, desires official notice of his appointment as Assistant Geological Surveyor for the West Indian Islands);
• E W Major (application to the post of Resident Surgeon of the Lunatic Asylum);
• A Meally (law of divorce);
• J E Muir (complaint against the governor);
• J Race (proprietor of Bamboo Estate);
• Reverend W Serres (appointment as Chaplain of the government penitentiary at Kingston);
• Thompson Hankey and Company (report on railway iron);
• J Willis (extension of leave of absence, requests an exchange of chaplaincies with clergymen in England, reports willingness of W Serres to exchange, thanks the Secretary of State for agreeing to the exchange).

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